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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
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On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 04:33:47PM +0000, Alan wrote:
> > The trick is to let a lawyer send cease and desist letters to people 
> > distributing the infringing software for 1 Euro at Ebay.
> 
> Doesn't that sound even more like the music industry ? Pick on Grandma,
> and people who've no clue about the issue. It's not the way to solve such
> problems. The world does not need "The war on binary modules". Educate
> people instead, and talk to vendors.

.... or like Microsoft, who is threatening to make war on end-users
instead of settling things with vendors.  (One of the reasons why I
personally find the Microsoft promise not to sue _Novell_'s end users
so nasty.  Microsoft shouldn't be threatening anyone's users; if they
have a problem, they should be taking it up with the relevant vendor,
not sueing innocent and relatively shallow-pocketed end-users and
distributors.)

One of the things that I find so interesting about how rabid people
get about enforcing GPL-only modules is how they start acting more and
more like the RIAA, MPAA, and Microsoft every day....

						- Ted
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